The Cuckoo’s Cry Caroline by Overington,

HarperCollins

When Don Barlow, a few weeks shy of 70, finds a girl he doesn’t recognise at his door claiming to be a relative, we are immediately hooked. Morgan needs help and widower Don is lonely and vulnerable. As a teenager Don fathered a son who was given up for adoption. He never met Paul but now Morgan says she’s his granddaughter and has nowhere to stay. Don feels obliged to do the right thing and with COVID-19 raging in Bondi he and the 19-year-old are soon locked down together. His only granddaughter is very suspicious and so are we, but there’s something rather special about the relationship these two develop. Caroline Overington gets under the skin of social issues with another domestic thriller that is at once chilling and charming.